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A Sunset Sail
By George Nemethy
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on wood panel, signed in the lower right with the artist's monogram. Presented in a period carved wood frame. In great condition, ready to hang and enjoy. Measures 10.25" x 11.7...
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20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

King of Hearts
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Wonderful painting on canvas of playing cards in the Trompe L'oeil style by Elena and Michel Gran. Signed in the lower right hand corner. Presents very well overall and is ready to h...
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1990s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Still Life of Flowers and a Blue and White Vase
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right and presented in a wonderful gilt frame. This vibrant still life measures 33.5" x 41.5" including the frame. 1855-1936, French Desire Alfred Magne...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings

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Oil

A Schooner off of the Coast
By Gordon Grant
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on canvas by American artist Gordon Hope Grant featuring a schooner off of the coast. This painting is signed and dated i1945 n the lower left and measures 33.5" x 33.5" inclu...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Clearing Up
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas signed in the upper right. Measurements listed include the frame at 38.5" x 48". The canvas measures 30" x 40". It is in excellent condition and ready to hang. Born in...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

After the Rain
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas signed in the lower left and inscribed in verso. Measuring 37.5" x 37.5" with the frame and 30" x 30" canvas only. It is in excellent condition and ready to hang. Born...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

A Still Life of Flowers in a Vase
By John C. Traynor
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas depicting a vibrant vase of fresh cut flowers, signed and dated in the lower right. The dimensions listed include the frame. John C. Traynor's painting style is remini...
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1980s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Catulle-Mendes
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Dimensions listed include the frame. Charcoal and pastel on paper and bears a signature lower right. There is also the workshop’s stamp (Leonetto Capiello) lower left. Renoir sought ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Charcoal, Pastel, Laid Paper

Westminster Abbey, London
By Frank Myers Boggs
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed in the lower left. This is a wonderful scene of Westminster Abbey in London with sunlight beaming down from above. Dimensions listed include the ...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

An American Clipper Ship
By Leslie Arthur Wilcox
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas signed in the lower right corner. This painting depicts an American clipper ship with a pilot in the English Channel. The dimensi...
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20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Boy and His Pug Dog
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Fantastic early portrait of a young man and his pug dog. This painting is most likely British, but it could also be from continental Europe. It dates from the late 18th to the early ...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

La Porte Saint Martin, Paris
By Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A waterclolor and gouache painting depicting a traditional Parisian street scne on paper by French artist Eugene Galien-Laloue. Presented in an appropriate frame and signed in the lo...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

The Privateer Ship America
By James Brereton
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Dimensions listed include the frame. Featuring the Privateer ship "America" under full sail. Title and dated on the reverse. The dimensions listed ...
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1980s Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Alpen Glow in Garmisch, Bavaria
Located in Wiscasett, ME
This painting is an oil on canvas and signed in the lower right, dating to about 1920. It does has craquelure which would be expected for an untouched painting of this age, but it do...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Playing Guitar by the Fire
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasett, ME
This oil on canvas is signed and dated in the lower right and measures 32.5" x 37" including the frame. The scene depicts a young lady playing her guitar by the light of the fire. Th...
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1950s Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Outside the Inn
By Heywood Hardy
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on panel signed and dated in the lower left depicting two riders on horseback sharing a drink outside a country inn. The painting measures 17.75" x 21.75" including the frame. Provenance: Private collection CT Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, ME Heywood Hardy (25 November 1842 – 20 January 1933) was a British artist, in particular an animal painter and painter of horse riding scenes. He also painted landscapes and portraits, especially equestrian portraits. Horses and horse riding were the subjects of much of Hardy’s later work. His pictures of horse riding by the seashore...
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Early 1900s Victorian Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Lively Naval Engagement
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel measuring 21" x 24.5," including the frame. The painting is signed in the lower right corner, but we cannot attribute the signature. Probably dating from the late 19th ...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The Painter and His Muse
By Benjamin Eugène Fichel
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel signed in the lower right corner and presented in a period frame measuring 21" x 18.5". Provenance: Private Collection Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, ME Benj...
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19th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

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Oil

An Elegant Hawking Party, A Pair of Paintings
By August Querfurt
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A pair of old master paintings by August Querfurt (1696-1761). Oil on panel, one signed with initials in the lower left. Two scenes depicting hawking parties from the 18th century. I...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Sunny Day in New York City
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on canvas, signed lower right. Measuring 36" x 46" including the frame. Mr. Valery Tsarikovsky is an internationally respected artist known as Tsar - impressionism today, reflecting our environment vibrancy of the cities, harmony of any weather conditions, creating atmosphere of the present moment. Born in 1952 in Kiev (Ukraine), Val Tsar...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Venetian Canal
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on canvas signed in the lower left and presented in a gilded frame under glass. A wonderful scene of a sunny day on the canal in Venice, Italy. Measuring 20.25" x 24.25" inclu...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Oil

The Chemist
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right. Measures 36" x 41" including the frame. Johann Georg Meyer Von Bremen (German 1813-1886) was a genre painter. He was the son of master baker Johann Georg Meyer. His mother was strictly religious. From 1833 he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts , which was led since 1826 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, the son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. In addition to Schadow, Karl Ferdinand Son was his teacher there. Meyer acquired the necessary craftsmanship skills to make a living from the sale of his paintings, but he was initially unable to do so. From 1841 to 1852 he maintained his own studio in Düsseldorf. On his travels to Brussels and Antwerp Meyer experienced the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck. In 1851 he married the singer Julia Beer...
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19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Seated Woman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed with initials center left. Measures 32" x 23.5" including the frame. Provenance: ACA Galleries, NYC Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine Brought to...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a British Officer
By Thomas Beach
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A very fine portrait of a British military officer signed and dated Thomas Beach 1774 in the lower left. This oil on canvas is presented in a period gilt frame and is ready to hang. ...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

European City on the Water
By Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed and dated in the lower left corner. A tranquil painting featuring a European city on a lake or river at sunrise or sunset. Char...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fresh Cut Flowers in a Vase
By Eugene Speicher
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas by Eugene Edward Speicher signed lower right. Measures 28" x 25" including the frame. Provenance: Private Collection USA Brad...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Race Day
By Jenness Cortez
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel by Jenness Cortez signed and dated lower left beautifully framed and matted measuring 16" x 21" including the frame. This painting features two jockeys and their race ho...
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20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Quiet Evening
By José Royo
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed and dated in the lower right corner. Presented in a carved frame measuring 38.5" x 33.75" overall. The work features a woman reading by lamp light in a very tra...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Twilight in the Hills
By William Louis Sonntag Sr. 1
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A luminous Autumn oil on canvas board landscape, probably of the hills in the Hudson River Valley, by the noted American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Signed in the lower right. Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Winters Glow
By Johann Jungblut
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A bucolic sunrise scene from the Netherlands or German by Johann Jungblut. Oil on board signed in the lower left. Measures 23.25" x 17.25" including the frame. While this work is a w...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Australian Twin Steamer "Bunyip"
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on artist board, 19th century. No signature found, but done by a talented hand with a beautiful luminous quality. Label on reverse The Australian Twin Steamer 'Bunyip', 1860. T...
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1860s Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Chickens
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Clifford Edgar Jones 1915-1975 American Chickens, 1948. Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches unframed and 34" x 27.5" inches including the frame. Signed at lower right Clifford Jones ‘48’. P...
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1950s American Modern Animal Paintings

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Oil

Shipping Off the Coast
By Thomas Luny
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Shipping off the coast by English artist Thomas Luny. Oil on canvas signed and dated 35' in the lower left. Nice period and possibly original frame. Thomas Luny (1759–1837), born in Cornwall, probably at St Ewe, was an English artist and painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. At the age of eleven, Luny left Cornwall to live in London. There he became the apprentice of Francis Holman, a marine painter who would have a great and long lasting artistic influence on Luny: Luny remained until 1780 in Holman's London studio, which, was first situated in Broad Street, St. George's, and later relocated to Old Gravel Lane. Examples of his work are exhibited at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, and at The Mariners' Museum in Newport...
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1830s Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The Golden Force
By Karl Momen
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Karl Momen, Swedish b. 1937. This oil on canvas was painted in 1989 and finished in 1990, titled "The Golden Force." It is titled and signed on the reverse. Provenance: Marissa de...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Scandinavian Winter Sun
By Edvard Rosenberg
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower left. A luminous sunset or sunrise winter scene from Scandinavia. Edvard Axel Rosenberg (Swedish School, 1858-1934) In many ways Edward Rosenberg...
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1910s Flemish School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Moonlight Sail" painting signed S. Michel
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Signed S. Michel, great mid-century feel. Very well executed oil on canvas.
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tree Row II
By Scott Duce
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel, inscribed on reverse and signed lower left front. Provenance: Fay Gold Gallery b.1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include Random House, General Electric, IBM, Pfizer, Inc., Capital Holding Corporation, McGraw-Hill Corporation, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland, Seagrams-Montreal, Canada, and the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Among his awards and honors he received a National Endowment for the Arts/SECCA artist grant. Duce’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and internationally in Paris, France; Florence, Italy; and Lima, Peru. He has had many commissioned works, including Bell South...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Winter Marker 1
By Scott Duce
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel, signed lower left and inscribed reverse. Provenance: Fay Gold Gallery b.1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include Random House, General Electric, IBM, Pfizer, Inc., Capital Holding Corporation, McGraw-Hill Corporation, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland, Seagrams-Montreal, Canada, and the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Among his awards and honors he received a National Endowment for the Arts/SECCA artist grant. Duce’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and internationally in Paris, France; Florence, Italy; and Lima, Peru. He has had many commissioned works, including Bell South...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Olive Tree
By Scott Duce
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled and inscribed on reverse. b.1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include Random House, General Electric, IBM, Pfizer, Inc., Capital Holding Corporation, McGraw-Hill Corporation, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland, Seagrams-Montreal, Canada, and the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Among his awards and honors he received a National Endowment for the Arts/SECCA artist grant. Duce’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and internationally in Paris, France; Florence, Italy; and Lima, Peru. He has had many commissioned works, including Bell South...
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Early 2000s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Season Dream
By Scott Duce
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed, titled, and dated on reverse. Measuring 72" x 84" in good condition and ready to hang. American, b.1956 Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include Random House, General Electric, IBM, Pfizer, Inc., Capital Holding Corporation, McGraw-Hill Corporation, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland, Seagrams-Montreal, Canada, and the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Among his awards and honors he received a National Endowment for the Arts/SECCA artist grant. Duce’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, with several solo exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and internationally in Paris, France; Florence, Italy; and Lima, Peru. He has had many commissioned works, including Bell South...
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Early 2000s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Harness Racer at Belmont Park 1884, Philadelphia
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right Agustus Knoller and dated 1884. Inscribed on the reverse in pencil "This trotting came off Aug 15th 1884 at Belmont Park...
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1880s Folk Art Animal Paintings

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Oil

Rocky Mountain Vista
By John Terelak
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A monumental 59" x 82" with frame oil on canvas painting of a rocky mountain vista by John Terelak. Signed and dated lower left and inscribed verso. It...
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1990s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Conway Bay, Low Water
By Benjamin Williams Leader
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel, signed and dated 1894 in the lower left and inscribed on the reverse. The frame measures 15.25" x 19.25". Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and first child of eleven children, of notable civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (1802–79) and Sarah Whiting (1801–88). His father was described as a "non conformist dissenter" and his mother was a Quaker – their marriage in an Anglican church resulted in them being disowned by the Society of friends. Leader's father was a keen amateur artist – a friend of John Constable – and Benjamin would often accompany him on sketching trips along the banks of the River Severn. His brother, also Edward Leader Williams, later became a notable civil engineer who was knighted for his work, and is now mainly remembered for designing Manchester ship canal...
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1890s Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Village by the Lake
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Old master painting featuring a busy port city in the 17th century. Most likely Dutch and very close in style to the work of Thomas Heeremans. This is...
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17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Highland Sheep, Scotland
By John Barker
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Measures 32.25" x 37.5" including the frame. Know for his paintings of scenes in the highlands of Scotland, John Barker, British 1811 to 1886.
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Oil

Baling the Hay
By John Linnell (b.1792)
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Fall farm scene painting by John Linnell, oil on board signed and dated in the lower right. The painting measures 26.5" x 28.5" including the fram...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Frozen Canal
By Johann Jungblut
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower left and presented in a magnificent carved and gilt frame. This painting has a wonderful atmosphere to it and measures 40" x 56" including the fram...
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Early 1900s Dutch School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The Ballerina
By Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Pastel on canvas, signed lower right, measuring 38" x 48.25" including the frame. Pierre Carrier-Belleuse His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

A Hazy Morning on the Welsh Hills
By Benjamin Williams Leader
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on artist panel, signed and dated lower left. It measures 19.75" x 22.75" including the frame, which is likely the original. Benjamin Williams Leader RA (12 March 1831 – 22 March 1923) was an English landscape painter. The inspiration for these early works was the countryside around Worcester itself, "the cottages, farmhouses, lanes, hedgerows and churches, so exceedingly picturesque and beautiful". However, Leader did not finish his course of studies at the R. A, nor did he need to – his paintings proved to be in great demand by wealthy buyers and he achieved an enviable degree of commercial success within only a few years of his first sale. In 1857 he changed his name to Benjamin Williams Leader to distinguish himself from the many other painters with the surname Williams. In autumn of that year he travelled to Scotland, and painted A Quiet pool in Glen Falloch...
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1870s Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Preparing the Meal
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasett, ME
This oil on canvas is signed and date in the upper left and measures 38" x 45.25" including the frame. Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964). Sam Uhrdi...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sunset over the Lake in Winter
By Edvard Rosenberg
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed and dated depicting a glorious sunset in winter. Measures 28" x 34" including the frame. Edvard Axel Rosenberg (Swedish School, 1858-1934). In many ways Edvard Rosenberg...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

The Pool Players
By Vincent Campanella 1
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on artist board signed and dated lower right featuring pool players playing a point match in the pool hall. Great WPA feel and texture impasto. Most likel...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil

A Parisian Boulevard
By Henri Alexis Schaeffer
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right featuring a vibrant street in Paris. Henri Alexis Schaeffer (1900-1975) was born in Paris, France in e...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Cubist Figure with Broom
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Mid-century cubist oil on masonite signed in the lower right. Presented in what is most likely its original frame and presents well. Original label from Contemporary Arts on E 57th i...
January in the City
By Antonio Pietro Martino
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas board, signed lower left and inscribed on the reverse, as well as on the frame. This is most likely the original frame for this work made by the artist.
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rhythm of Wings
By Grant Hacking
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel, signed lower left. New England artist Grant Hacking was born and raised in South Africa and resided there until the age of twenty-five so he still experiences great pl...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil

Rhythm of Wings
Rhythm of Wings
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Pair of Country Life Scenes
By George Henry Durrie
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A pair of oil on panel paintings featuring the "Farm in Autumn" and "A Fisherman in the Mountains". Autumn initialed 'D' lower right and The Fisherman s...
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Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Feeding the Baby
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed upper left. Provenance: Sothebys Amsterdam, Private collection London, Private collection Palm Beach. His working period was from about 1894 to 1973, successively in Rotterdam, Heeze (Heeze-Leende), Hilversum and Laren. He was educated at the Craft School for decorative painters and received evening lessons at the Rotterdam Academy under the direction of A. van Maasdijk. He was a member of the Vereeniging Sint Lucas...
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Early 20th Century Dutch School Interior Paintings

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Oil

Landscape with Hills
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on board, signed and dated 38' in lower right. Measures 6.75" x 15.5" including the frame, also inscribed and signed on reverse. Nikolai Timkov is one of the best known Russian ...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Tea Time
By Frank Bramley
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Signed and dated 92 lower left. Oil on canvas. Frank Bramley British, 1857-1915 Frank Bramley is considered one of the most important artists of the Newlyn School, the group of artists who settled in Newlyn, Cornwall during the 1880s and 1890s, drawn by the light, lifestyle and the example of Alexander Stanhope Forbes, and were at the forefront of 'British Impressionism'. He was particularly ‘in the news’ when his painting of a woman reading in a garden made the astonishing price of $590,000 at Sotheby's New York in late May 1996. As the seminal catalogue of the famous Newlyn School exhibition states, Bramley's reputation has rested for some time on Hopeless Dawn, his major RA exhibition of 1888, and which in recent years has been hung almost constantly at the Tate Gallery. Bramley was born in Lincolnshire and trained at Lincoln Art School, later at Verlat's Academy in Antwerp, from where he went to Venice in 1882-83, where our painting was executed. He first showed at the Royal Academy in London in 1884 (both paintings were Venetian scenes), and it was in the winter of 1884/5 that Bramley settled in Newlyn. He was a quiet and reserved figure, prone to bouts of melancholy. He worked on his own in a tiny studio in an old thatched cottage - the cottage consisted of two rooms, one at ground level (which was the studio) and one which was below ground which was inhabited by a woman who'd lost her arms and who managed to look after a set of tiny children as well as a small potato and turnip shop. Bramley moved to a purpose-built glass studio in 1889. He is known as the master of the so-called 'square-brush technique' which characterizes much of the best Newlyn School work and he used this until 1893, later than most of his colleagues. Bramley was friendly with the great artist Sargent and with him was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1894, being elected a full member in 1911. In 1891 he had married, and 4 years later they moved to the Midlands where his work became less socially orientated and more purely decorative. His last years were spent in a London flat...
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1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil